Coheed And Cambria consists of Claudio Sanchez (vocals, guitar), Joshua Eppard (drums), Michael Todd (bass, vocals), Travis Stever (guitar, vocals).
Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band from Nyack, New York. Coheed and Cambria have released three studio albums, one live album, and various special-edition re-releases. Their albums are concept albums, all telling the same story in different parts. So far, there are a planned five albums for the Bag On Line Adventures, the current storyline running through the songs. To date, three studio albums have been released: The Second Stage Turbine Blade ( 2002), In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 ( 2003), and Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness ( 2005). These albums make up the second, third, and fourth parts of the saga of Coheed and Cambria. The albums are being released out of sequence; this will be the first of a two-part conclusion to the saga, which will be followed by the story's introduction.
When a band called Toxic Parents, featuring Travis Stever and Claudio Sanchez, dissolved around the same time as Nate Kelley's project, Moe & The Boogie Cats (who disbanded after their lead singer left New York to join a UFO cult in Arizona), the members came together to form a new band.
In March 1995, Travis Stever (lead vocals, guitar), Claudio Sanchez (guitar), Nate Kelley (drums) and Jon Carleo (bass) came together to form a band called Beautiful Loser. The band was short-lived, however, as in June of the same year they broke up, due to an argument over gas money. Stever left the band, and Kelley was initially kicked out, but came back when asked by Sanchez. Without Stever, the band became a trio, and Sanchez took control of the lead vocals and guitar.
Renaming themselves Shabütie, the band spend nearly a year experimenting with a multitude of different sounds— punk rock, indie rock, acoustic rock, funk and heavy metal to name a few—and purportedly wrote as many as 100 songs, few of which were kept. Carleo, on bass, left the band in August 1996. Kelley knew Mic Todd from an acoustic side project the two had together, called Esme 9, so he recruited Todd to take Carleo's place. Being a guitarist, Todd picked up the bass specifically for Shabütie, and excelled rapidly.